The last son of heaven in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty: 59 years in power, but he could not stop the demise of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. According to many historians' research, after Zhou Pingwang moved eastward, its jurisdiction was greatly reduced and it became a small country, with more than 140 vassal states in the Spring and Autumn Period. In the face of mutual attacks and mergers between princes, the son of heaven could not bear the responsibility of the Lord, and often turned to some powerful princes for help. In this case, the powerful princes will usurp the role of overlord. In 3 15 BC, Ji Yan ascended the throne, which is known as Zhou Nanwang. As the last emperor of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Nanwang reigned for 59 years and became the longest reigning monarch in the history of the Zhou Dynasty. However, despite repeated efforts, Zhou Nanwang could not stop the end of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.

First of all, Qin had captured many places in Korea, Wei and Zhao, and the next step was to clean up the Zhou Dynasty. Zhou Nanwang joined forces with other vassal states and ordered the Duke of the Western Zhou Dynasty to sign a contract to assemble an army of five or six thousand people, but it lacked weapons and funds. Ji Yan raised military expenses from the rich people in China, paid them loan certificates, and promised to repay them with trophies on the day when Zhou Jun moved to another place. In 256 BC, Ji Yan made preparations, appointed the Duke of the Western Zhou Dynasty as the general, led 5,000 troops to attack the State of Qin, and invited six governors to meet in Yi Que (now south of Luoyang, Henan) to jointly attack. Unexpectedly, except Chu and Yan sent some soldiers, the military forces of the other four countries failed to come, and the total strength of Iraq was only tens of thousands, far from being the opponent of hundreds of thousands of cockroaches.

In this context, Zhou Nanwang not only failed to defeat the State of Qin, but owed a lot of debts, which is the origin of the historical allusion of "mounting debts". When Zhou Nanwang came to power, the weak Eastern Zhou Dynasty was divided into two regions: the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the Western Zhou Dynasty. After Yiyang War, Qin took advantage of the situation of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the Western Zhou Dynasty to attack South Korea through the Zhou area. I am worried that borrowing pottery will offend South Korea and not Qin. That is, at that time, not only did they dare not offend Qin, but even South Korea, the weakest of the Seven Heroes in the Warring States, was afraid. In other words, at this time, the Zhou royal family is not as good as the Seven Heroes of the Warring States in actual position, which means it needs to look at the faces of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States.

The doctor said to him, "Why not send someone to see Uncle Han? He said to Han Shu:' Qin dared to attack Korea by the Zhou Dynasty because he trusted the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. Why don't you seal Zhou Fentian and send hostages to Chu? In this way, Qin will definitely doubt Chu and distrust Zhou Jun, so it will not attack South Korea. He also sent someone to the state of Qin to say,' Han insisted on giving us some land to Zhou, in order to make the state of Qin doubt Zhou Jun, and Zhou dared not refuse.' The state of Qin did not say a word, and Zhou was not allowed to accept Korean land, so he got Korean land and was obedient to the state of Qin. "

After the Battle of Handan, the royal family of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty was exposed and became the target of Qin. In the fifty-ninth year of Zhou Nanwang (256 BC), Qin Jun captured Koryo Yangcheng and Shu Min, and the Western Zhou Dynasty betrayed Qin in fear, United with the eastern governors, and led the world's elite out of Iraq to attack Qin, making it impossible for Qin to communicate with Yangcheng. Zhao Haoqi, king of Qin Xiang, was very angry and sent a general to attack the Western Zhou Dynasty. The king of the Western Zhou Dynasty ran to the State of Qin, kowtowed and pleaded guilty, and dedicated all 36 cities and 30,000 people to Zhao Xiang, the king of Qin. In the same year, Zhou Nanwang died of depression and anger, because the royal power of Zhou at that time had been controlled by Duke Zhou of the Western Zhou Dynasty and Duke Zhou of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, as well as Duke Luoyang of the Western Zhou Dynasty and Duke Gong Yi of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.

In this regard, in the author's view, Zhou Nanwang, the son of heaven, not only needs to face the attack of Qin and other big countries, but also has been shelved by ministers at home, which is undoubtedly a very wronged thing. Therefore, compared with Xian Di and other emperors in the Eastern Han Dynasty, he was the poorest emperor. As far as it is concerned, he died in 256 BC, that is, he reigned for 59 years, and he was the longest-serving son of heaven of the Zhou royal family. In 249 BC, the king of Qin Zhuang destroyed the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. Things belong to the state of Qin for two weeks, and the sacrifices in the Zhou Dynasty are cut off. For me, although he allied the princes against Qin during his reign, this could not prevent the result of the demise of the royal family in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.